Sales figures for the second quarter of the year are in and it would be fair to say the smartphone industry is in rude health. According to research from Strategy Analytics, global shipments saw solid growth, up 6% year-on-year to 360.4 million. While Samsung and Apple predictably held on to first and second spots in the manufacturer rankings, Chinese challengers Xiaomi, Huawei, and Oppo recorded significant gains as they worked to close the gap.

Oppostyle.com used to be one of the sites you could go to if you wanted to buy an Oppo phone. It had localizations for Europe, North America, and the International market, and it was recognized by Oppo community employees as the company's official distributor. However, the site is now closed and the last instance we can find of it online was back on February 11. At the time, it was showing a flash sale for the Find 7, Find 7a, R7, R7s, and R7 Plus.

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/02/oppos-official-distributor-site-oppostyle-com-officially-closed/feed/2Oppo figured out how to shove 5x lossless zoom into a phone without the camera bumphttp://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/28/oppo-figured-shove-5x-lossless-zoom-phone-without-camera-bump/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/02/28/oppo-figured-shove-5x-lossless-zoom-phone-without-camera-bump/#commentsTue, 28 Feb 2017 17:28:36 +0000http://www.androidpolice.com/?p=410439

Oppo showed off some impressive camera innovations at MWC. Dubbed "5x Dual Camera Zoom," the breakthrough allows for 5x lossless zoom in a camera module that is only 5.7mm thick. That means little to no camera bump, in theory. The Chinese OEM is calling this the world's first "periscope style dual-camera technology."

This has been in development for almost a year. The camera itself uses wide-angle and telephoto lenses, and the housing for the latter uses a periscope-style structure.

It's no secret why CyanogenMod is the most popular custom ROM out there; not only does it support a metric crapload of Android devices, but it also keeps them going far past their primes. The latest devices to get support for CM14.1 (Android 7.1 Nougat) nightlies include two variants of the Galaxy S III, the second-generation Moto X, a few Oppo devices, two versions of the HTC One Max, two Xiaomi phones, and more.

CyanogenMod is virtually the best-known custom ROM out there, and for good reason: it brings the newest version of Android to devices that would otherwise have to wait much longer to receive it, or would never receive it at all. This week, quite a few popular devices have received CyanogenMod 14.1, which is based on Android 7.1 Nougat.

It's time for a hot and fresh batch of TWRP releases, everyone. Today, we've got five new devices that now officially support TeamWin Recovery Project, for all of your flashing and recovery needs. Those devices and their respective links are, in no particular order:

I'm not going to tell you why you may want to install a custom recovery. You already know you need one to replace your default ROM or make carbon copies of your device's current state. And you know that the Team Win Recovery Project's custom recovery is at the top of your list of options.

Now TWRP has arrived for quite a few devices, including a buttload of Xiaomi phones. We're talking about the Mi 2 and Mi 4, along with their various versions.

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/13/a-bunch-of-xiaomi-devices-get-twrp-support-alongside-other-hardware/feed/8OPPO Announces The F1 Plus, A Super-Slim Phone With A 16MP Front Camera That Doesn't Look Anything Like An iPhone, No Sir It Doesn'thttp://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/05/oppo-announces-the-f1-plus-a-super-slim-phone-with-a-16mp-front-camera-that-doesnt-look-anything-like-an-iphone-no-sir-it-doesnt/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/04/05/oppo-announces-the-f1-plus-a-super-slim-phone-with-a-16mp-front-camera-that-doesnt-look-anything-like-an-iphone-no-sir-it-doesnt/#commentsTue, 05 Apr 2016 18:14:23 +0000https://www.androidpolice.com/?p=364079Look, Chinese phone manufacturers, we need to have a talk. I know trademarks, copyrights, patents, and all manner of intellectual property are played kind of fast and loose over there. But when even your legitimate companies follow Apple like a bunch of multi-million-dollar ducklings, it's not poking any holes in the old "iPhone clone" argument. Case in point: OPPO's shiny new F1 Plus, a phone that has some fantastic design and hardware and could certainly stand on its own merits...

OPPO might have just blown everyone's mind with its Super VOOC fast charging technology, but that doesn't mean that the company's MWC announcements are over. SmartSensor is its new Optical Image Stabilization technology and it happens to be the smallest, fastest, and most precise sensor available on smartphones right now.

OPPO explains that SmartSensor is built on sensor-based OIS (or sensor-shift OIS) as opposed to the current lens-based OIS technologies in smartphones.

Do you like Qualcomm's Quick Charge? Are you impatiently waiting for all devices and accessories to be compatible with Quick Charge 3.0? Then OPPO is about to rain on your parade with its Super VOOC technology. And I mean really rain.

Announced and demoed at MWC, Super VOOC is the evolution of OPPO's VOOC (yeah, they like capitalizing things) fast charging technology. It uses a new low-voltage pulse-charge system, a new dynamic algorithm for current regulation, and a new customized battery.

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/02/23/powaaaah-oppos-super-vooc-can-fully-charge-a-2500mah-battery-in-15-minutes/feed/43OPPO F1, The First Phone In The New F Series, Is Now Up For Pre-Order In Various Countrieshttp://www.androidpolice.com/2016/01/15/oppo-f1-the-first-phone-in-the-new-f-series-is-now-up-for-pre-order-in-various-countries/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/01/15/oppo-f1-the-first-phone-in-the-new-f-series-is-now-up-for-pre-order-in-various-countries/#commentsFri, 15 Jan 2016 20:20:30 +0000http://www.androidpolice.com/?p=353641

OPPO just announced that it was planning to announce a new phone soon. That's the gist of the story really. I guess the company wanted to jumpstart the CES news cycle by a couple of hours, without being ready to fully unveil all the specifics.

After receiving lots of positive feedback for its cameras on flagship devices, Oppo has decided to bring its photography experience to the mid-range. Everyone likes to take photos and Oppo wants to make it affordable without having to dig deep into your pockets for the top-of-the-line specs on all fronts.

A new variant of the OnePlus X, model number E1000, appeared earlier this week on the website for TENAA, the Chinese regulatory agency that is roughly equivalent to the FCC in the US. This means it was approved in much the same way that the FCC certifies all cell phones, but we are lucky enough to get far more detailed information, including pictures. TENAA calls it "E1000," which pretty clearly alludes to the OnePlus X, model number E1001/1003/1005.

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/12/31/possible-oneplus-2-mini-and-extremely-similar-oppo-a30-receive-regulatory-certification-in-china/feed/27OPPO Announces They Have Created And Will Maintain An AOSP ROM For Users Of 'Key Devices' Who Want The Latest And Greatesthttp://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/22/oppo-announces-they-have-created-and-will-maintain-an-aosp-rom-for-users-of-key-devices-who-want-the-latest-and-greatest/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/22/oppo-announces-they-have-created-and-will-maintain-an-aosp-rom-for-users-of-key-devices-who-want-the-latest-and-greatest/#commentsFri, 23 Oct 2015 02:31:56 +0000http://www.androidpolice.com/?p=342521

A constant source of consternation among owners of OPPO devices has been the heavily customized ColorOS and especially the slow speed of Android OS updates to it. OPPO has held strong to ColorOS, owing in large part to its reported popularity in Asian markets. Today, in an effort to appease enthusiast owners, OPPO has announced an initiative to support current devices with an AOSP ROM with limited customizations.

OPPO left some clues that they would do something like this, not that it comes as a huge surprise to anyone given the long demands for it.

In our ongoing and exciting coverage of X Device Gets TWRP, today we bring you four new characters: the Galaxy J7 (Exynos), Xperia Z3 Compact, CAT B15Q, and the Oppo R7 Plus f. You can get TWRP for each at the links below.

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/08/18/twrp-adds-support-for-the-z3-compact-cat-b15q-samsung-galaxy-j7-exynos-and-oppo-r7-plus/feed/9Official TWRP Support Comes To The Nexus Player And The Oppo R5http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/22/official-twrp-support-comes-to-the-nexus-player-and-the-oppo-r5/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/22/official-twrp-support-comes-to-the-nexus-player-and-the-oppo-r5/#commentsFri, 22 May 2015 14:04:56 +0000http://www.androidpolice.com/?p=318150TWRP has officially come to two more devices, and they're quite an odd pair. One is the Oppo R5. This is a phone so thin that it lacks a headphone jack.

The second is the Nexus Player. Yup, official TWRP support for your set-top box. But experience won't exactly be the smooth one you're expecting. The maintainer says you will need a USB OTG cable and a USB mouse to navigate TWRP on the device, and even then, the graphics will be a bit laggy due to a lack of optimization for x86.

The midrange smartphone market is getting more interesting by the day, both on its cheaper lower end or in the more expensive price bracket. The latter is the case of the newly unveiled Oppo R7 and R7 Plus, which tread that thin line between upper midrange and almost-flagship status, offering a list of impressive specifications in a very decent-looking package.

Oppo takes about 8 sections in its product pages to explain why the R7 and R7 Plus are such exquisite devices, comparing their curves...

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/20/oppo-unveils-the-violin-inspired-5-r7-and-6-r7-plus-with-dual-sims-snapdragon-615-3gb-ram-13mp-camera-and-android-5-1-in-a-color-os-flavor/feed/41OPPO Releases A Beta Lollipop Version Of Its ColorOS ROM For The Find 7 and Find 7ahttp://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/18/oppop-releases-a-beta-lollipop-version-of-its-coloros-rom-for-the-find-7-and-find-7a/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/18/oppop-releases-a-beta-lollipop-version-of-its-coloros-rom-for-the-find-7-and-find-7a/#commentsMon, 18 May 2015 19:32:00 +0000http://www.androidpolice.com/?p=317237If you've got a Find 7 or Find 7a phone from OPPO and you're itching for an official Lollipop ROM, head on over to the company's user forums. A beta version of Color OS 2.1, running on top of Android 5.0 code, has been posted for you to download. At the moment this edition of the software is not available via an over-the-air update, though that should be coming soon enough.

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/18/oppop-releases-a-beta-lollipop-version-of-its-coloros-rom-for-the-find-7-and-find-7a/feed/20Oppo Find 5, N1, And R819 Officially Won't Get Android Lollipop Updateshttp://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/06/oppo-find5-n1-and-r819-officially-wont-get-android-lollipop-updates/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/06/oppo-find5-n1-and-r819-officially-wont-get-android-lollipop-updates/#commentsWed, 06 May 2015 15:42:40 +0000http://www.androidpolice.com/?p=315030Towards the end of 2014, Oppo released an update for the Find 5 that bumped the Jelly Bean-running device up to KitKat. It wasn't a quality piece of work, but it was something. Now we know that for the Find 5, along with the N1 and the R819, things won't get any better. No additional ColorOS updates are on the way. None of these devices will see Android Lollipop.

This news comes after a reader pointed us toward the Oppo forums, where a moderator stated that these three devices won't receive any more ColorOS updates.

]]>http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/06/oppo-find5-n1-and-r819-officially-wont-get-android-lollipop-updates/feed/42An Oppo Phone With Teeny-Tiny Bezels Leaks On A Chinese Tech Sitehttp://www.androidpolice.com/2015/03/24/an-oppo-phone-with-teeny-tiny-bezels-leaks-on-a-chinese-tech-site/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/03/24/an-oppo-phone-with-teeny-tiny-bezels-leaks-on-a-chinese-tech-site/#commentsTue, 24 Mar 2015 15:37:00 +0000http://www.androidpolice.com/?p=307013Remember back in the days of "dumb" phones when everyone wanted them to be as tiny as possible? Then the original RAZR hit, and it was all about thinness, even to the point of absurdity? That second trend is still going strong, but a contender for the next one is phones (and laptops and TVs and what have you) with the least amount of screen bezel possible. Behold, a new Oppo phone that gives the oddball Sharp Aquos Crystal a run for its money, at least on the left and right sides.